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Qgdk TIL In 1935, Sigmund Freud replied to a mother concerned about her son’s homosexuality by saying “ it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness” and “ It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too.”
kJGA1 TIL that between 1970 and 1997 so many post office workers snapped and killed their coworkers that a new slang term "going postal" became a new slang term for becoming exceptionally angry
neXd9 TIL that in 1938 early aviator Douglas Corrigan was denied permission to fly from New York to Ierland. Since he was denied he planned to fly to California instead. 28 hours later he arrived in Ireland, telling officials that he must have mistakenly gone the wrong way.
N75KJ TIL televangelist Jerry Falwell said in opposition to Brown v. Board of Education: When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line.
eBPn TIL of the Blue House Raid, an attempt by North Korea to assassinate the South Korean president. The plot was foiled when South Koreans who were captured by the would be assassins were let go with the promise they would not call the police. They called the police.